A Comparison Between the English and the Chinese Love Poetry Before the Modern Period

The thcme of romantic love may well be said to be a universal One inpoetry.But,since the content of love varies from one culture to another,itstreatments in the respective literatures also differ from one another.A com-parison between the English and the Chinese love poetry reveals their inter-defining relationship,adding unexpected new dimensions to our understandingof both.The theory of literary criticism,to be sure,could also benefit ap-preciably from the conclusions of sucn a comparison.